Area 51 is temporarily closed! 

Translation - chillies have been evicted from the dining room. Apparently they’re creating to much humidity for his table finish ( osmo ) to cure. Just as well he’s getting paid well for finishing tables. He better hurry up, he’s Upsetting my chillies!

This is a thread for recommendations on cleaning/ household items/ beauty / health & wellbeing & hygiene products. That are all or a combination of plastic / chemical / palm oil & cruelty free. 

I’ve ordered my first products from a couple of companies this morning. I’ll report back when I’ve tried them out.
I’ve wanted to go plastic & cruelty free for a good few years if I’m honest but it’s always been very expensive and quite limited and difficult to find. Now there are eco shops springs up all over the place. Still more expensive then the commercial stuff. Which is to be expected. I’m very excited for the post to arrive next week. 

So please if you have any recommendations share. Name drop those small companies 

Apparently the seeds for this can only be bought from Real Seeds? Real Seeds are out of stock so this is a plea for a few seeds off anyone who has any?
If I could just get one plant I think it can be propagated from cuttings, but getting that one plant is harder than it seems.

I will gladly pay for the seeds and P&P. Or if anyone knows where I could purchase some, that would be better.

Because the charity shops are closed my supply of Historical fiction books has dried up. I've even read all my gruesome murder books.

Getting desperate, I decided to start reading  Geoff Hamiltons Cottage Garden book last night in bed. I have had this book for ages along with others from the same author, if and when I find them.
I am finding it very interesting and the bloke seems a man after my own heart with a sort of sense he was anti-establishment and a bit of a rebel at heart.
Looking forward to reading how the cottage garden has evolved through the ages from its humble beginnings.

... moles liked slugs more than worms.
... voles preferred dandelions and docks to leeks and artichokes. 
... groundsel struggled to germinate. 

Any you'd like to add?

Do you look through the little end or the big end?

What is most important to you - the journey or the destination? 

Do you look at the Departures board or the Arrivals?

Do you look forward or look back?

Am I talking in riddles? If not, how does what I've asked relate to gardening??

If it helps, which I doubt, I have seen a shining light at the end of the garden and my eyes have been opened to The Other Way.

How knowledgeable about sweetcorn are you folks? 

I find a lot of guff is spouted about the 'types' of sweetcorn and the varieties that can be grown together.
I like sweetcorn Swift F1 which Garden Focussed classify as sugar enhanced (se/se+) but Kings and Simplyseed classify as shrunken (sh2)
As DT Brown had a sale and I saw that sweetcorn Picasso was a synergistic type and  (they say) could be grown with any other, I ordered some, thinking to experiment  a little.
Looking at some other site in the US it says that synergistic corn should be isolated from sh2.
I'm now in a quandary, the garden isn't big enough for two incompatible types, but I might succeed with successional  sowing so the two types don't flower at the same time.
Some days life gets complicated.  I may just stick with Swift.

Anyone know any different?

Some of my seedlings look a bit leggy, both flower and veg, I know that tomatoes can be planted up to the seed leaf but can you do the same with other seedlings, or are there some plants that you can't plant deeper than the the root ball?

Another potential bug to deal with!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56366107